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What's New in Sports? August 2019
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Take Your Mark - Everything Swimming
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How to improve at swimming
by Paul Mason
A guide to competitive swimming demonstrates such skills and techniques as freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly, and racing starts and turns, and includes information about warming up, diet, and water safety
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Swimming studies
by Leanne Shapton
An illustrated collection of autobiographical stories explores the worlds of competitive and recreational swimming while remembering the author's training as an Olympic hopeful in her teens.
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Swim : why we love the water
by Lynn Sherr
An exploration of the allure of the water and the human compulsion to swim traces how swimming has changed throughout history while surveying every aspect of the sport, from the biology of swimming and the fame of Esther Williams to the secret of buoyancy and the training of Olympic athletes.
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Synchronized swimming : an American history
by Dawn Pawson Bean
Among the topics covered are competition development, development around the United States, rules and technical changes, and leadership (from volunteers to a National Office). Four appendices list major award winners, U.S. National Champions, the results of major international competitions, and U.S. participation in international events.
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Barracuda : a novel
by Christos Tsiolkas
Raised by a hairdresser single mom in a tiny Melbourne flat, young Danny is elevated to an elite and unfamiliar world by his Olympics-level swimming talent and must consider returning home 20 years later when a family member reaches out for help.
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The sixth man : a memoir
by Andre Iguodala
The NBA swingman and All-Star shares insights into his remarkable career, discussing such topics as his 2012 Men's Basketball Olympics gold-medal win, his 2015 NBA championship with the Warriors and his off-court successes as a Silicon Valley insider.
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Darkness to light : a memoir
by Lamar Odom
The two-time NBA champion presents a candid account of the highs and lows of his life, sharing insights into his marriage to Khloe Kardashian, his struggles with addiction and the watershed event that transformed his perspectives.
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NFL century : the one-hundred-year rise of America's greatest sports league
by Joe Horrigan
The NFL has come a long way from its founding in Canton, Ohio, in 1920. In the hundred years since that fateful day, football has become America’s most popular and lucrative professional sport. The former scrappy upstart league that struggled to stay afloat has survived a host of challenges, controversies, scandals and competition from rival leagues to produce American icons like Vince Lombardi, Joe Montana, and Tom Brady. Its extraordinary and entertaining history could only be told by Joe Horrigan, perhaps the greatest living historian of the NFL, who draws upon decades of NFL archives. Compelling, eye-opening, and authoritative, NFL Century is a must-read for NFL fans and anyone who loves the game of football.
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